flyingcheesehead
Touchdown! Greaser!
Hi all,
My house has speakers installed in several rooms and even outside with wall-mounted volume controls. They're driven by one of these:
... A Denon AVR-1908, which is huge and is practically stuffed into the cabinet.
Unfortunately, its amp is blown. If I crank the volume up all the way to max, and one of the room volume controls all the way up, and it's quiet, I can hear it. Barely. But it's pretty much useless.
We also don't use it the way the former owners did, where it was also driving a home theater setup in the living room and had a billion inputs. I'm going to leave all the wiring in place, but honestly I'd rather just be able to use Bluetooth and a few audio outputs as the sources. We don't need it to hook up to TV or receive radio and such.
So really, what I'm looking for is something like this, without much of a UI on it other than source select, with the ability to drive several pairs of speakers, and preferably smaller size. New-age features like Bluetooth, integration with Alexa, etc would be nice but not required. (I actually have a standalone bluetooth interface I can use anyway.)
So... What is the product I am looking for?
My house has speakers installed in several rooms and even outside with wall-mounted volume controls. They're driven by one of these:
... A Denon AVR-1908, which is huge and is practically stuffed into the cabinet.
Unfortunately, its amp is blown. If I crank the volume up all the way to max, and one of the room volume controls all the way up, and it's quiet, I can hear it. Barely. But it's pretty much useless.
We also don't use it the way the former owners did, where it was also driving a home theater setup in the living room and had a billion inputs. I'm going to leave all the wiring in place, but honestly I'd rather just be able to use Bluetooth and a few audio outputs as the sources. We don't need it to hook up to TV or receive radio and such.
So really, what I'm looking for is something like this, without much of a UI on it other than source select, with the ability to drive several pairs of speakers, and preferably smaller size. New-age features like Bluetooth, integration with Alexa, etc would be nice but not required. (I actually have a standalone bluetooth interface I can use anyway.)
So... What is the product I am looking for?